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Scars In New Orleans Culture

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Those First Few Steps “Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.” It is my first time going to New Orleans with my family to see our cousins and I am just so excited. All I ever hear about it is the festivals that be hosted out there and the culture. When we get there everyone says there hellos and hugging and stuff. I do not care about that stuff I’m just ready to party. A few hours go by and the adults are drinking and having fun and me my brother and my cousin are just playing games to pass the time. Eventually, everyone is getting ready for the parades and putting on their good clothes. Everyone is a dress and ready to go, everyone is walking to the door and the adults look at us tells us “where yawl …show more content…

And I got me a souvenir from my first time going to New Orleans. So now I am always aware of my surroundings and never walk near wooden fences. “Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.” It is my first time going to New Orleans with my family to see our cousins and I am just so excited. All I ever hear about it is the festivals that be hosted out there and the culture. When we get there everyone says there hellos and hugging and stuff. I do not care about that stuff I’m just ready to party. A few hours go by and the adults are drinking and having fun and me my brother and my cousin are just playing games to pass the time. Eventually, everyone is getting ready for the parades and putting on their good clothes. Everyone is a dress and ready to go, everyone is walking to the door and the adults look at us tells us “where yawl think yawl going yawl staying you’re a** in this house”. Now we sitting there with this dumb look on our faces because we thought we were going to be able to party with …show more content…

We watching videos for hours but this one specific video stayed on my mind the whole time. The video was explaining how to run on walls. The person on the video was talking around four to five steps on the wall and that just blew my mind. In addition, I get bold and convince my brother and my cousin to come outside even though we were supposed to stay in the house. We're outside playing trying to do the tricks we saw in the videos and I suggest that we try to do the trick that requires you to run on the wall. The thing is that we don't have a wall all we have is a wooden fence. That didn't stop us though we trying our hardest to just get three steps and all we were able to do was

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